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Abstract Hydrazine‐assisted water electrolysis offers a feasible path for low‐voltage green hydrogen production. Herein, the design and synthesis of ultrathin RhRu 0.5 ‐alloy wavy nanowires as bifunctional electrocatalysts for both the anodic hydrazine oxidation reaction (HzOR) and the cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is reported. It is shown that the RhRu 0.5 ‐alloy wavy nanowires can achieve complete electrooxidation of hydrazine with a low overpotential and high mass activity, as well as improved performance for the HER. The resulting RhRu 0.5 bifunctional electrocatalysts enable, high performance hydrazine‐assisted water electrolysis delivering a current density of 100 mA cm −2 at an ultralow cell voltage of 54 mV and a high current density of 853 mA cm −2 at a cell voltage of 0.6 V. The RhRu 0.5 electrocatalysts further demonstrate a stable operation at a high current density of 100 mA cm −2 for 80 hours of testing period with little irreversible degradation. The overall performance greatly exceeds that of the previously reported hydrazine‐assisted water electrolyzers, offering a pathway for efficiently converting hazardous hydrazine into molecular hydrogen.
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Ag–Ru interface for highly efficient hydrazine assisted water electrolysis
Ru decorated Ag nanoparticles are designed as highly effective bifunctional electrocatalysts for hydrazine oxidation and hydrogen evolution reactions, enabling a hydrazine assisted water electrolyser with greatly increased current density.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2103116
- PAR ID:
- 10538096
- Publisher / Repository:
- RSC
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Energy & Environmental Science
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 6
- ISSN:
- 1754-5692
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 2279 to 2286
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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